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A Republican Sequester Self Destruction Could Cost Them at Least 10 House Seats
If House Republicans follow through on their plan to let the sequester defense cuts happen, they could immediately put 10 GOP held House seats in jeopardy.
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The Latest Attempt to Benghazi Obama Fails Because No One Cares About Drones
The far left is dealing with disappointment today as their attempt to turn the use of drones into a huge scandal has fizzled and died, because nobody cared.
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Real Trouble at Fox News as Viewer Trust Falls to An All Time Low
It looking like there is real trouble at Fox News. A new PPP TV news poll found that viewer trust in Fox News has fallen to an all time low. Only 41% of viewers trust Fox News.
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Bernie Sanders Blasts House Republicans and Will Fight to Save Saturday Mail
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced today that he will fight against the USPS plan to end Saturday, non-package mail delivery service. He also called out House Republicans for trying to kill the USPS
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The NRA Is so Toxic that Their Support Could Lose Elections for Republicans
According to a new PPP poll, the NRA’s position on gun control has become so toxic that voters view NRA support as a reason not to support a candidate
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Eric Cantor Rebrands the Republican Party by Plagiarizing a 2011 Obama Speech
A side by side video comparison reveals that phrases and ideas in Eric Cantor’s speech rebranding the Republican Party were plagiarized from a 2011 speech by President Obama.
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Bernie Sanders Exposes the Dirty Secret that a Few Wealthy People Control Congress
Bernie Sanders has spilled the beans on Congress. Sen. Sanders said, “The Congress of the United States of America is controlled by a handful of extraordinarily wealthy people and corporations.”
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Obama Checkmates Republicans By Offering a Sequester Escape Hatch Tied to More Revenue
President Obama took steps today to make sure that Republicans have already lost the sequester battle. He offered Republicans one way out, and that is to raise more revenue.
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Isn’t That Cute? John Boehner Pretends Like He Has a Choice on Raising More Taxes
In a statement today, Speaker Boehner issued more tough talk about about no new tax hikes as a part of a deal to avoid the sequester cuts. The problem is that Boehner doesn’t really have a choice.
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Rachel Maddow Mocks Every Obama Conspiracy Theory Since the Long Form Birth Certificate
Rachel Maddow subjects the recent spate of Obama conspiracy theories to the mocking that they so richly deserve.
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While Leading the Laziest House in History, John Boehner Tells Obama To Do His Job
John Boehner leads one half of the most unproductive Congress in history; yet, today he told President Obama to do his job.
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Obama Smacks Down the NRA on Background Checks and High Capacity Magazines
President Obama delivered another blow to the NRA by zeroing in on background checks and banning high capacity magazines during a speech in Minneapolis today.
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Obama Gives Republicans An Unhappy Super Bowl Sunday in Pregame Interview
President Obama ran through the Republican no tax defense and scored a touchdown on Super Bowl Sunday by telling the GOP that the revenue discussion is not over.
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Bulletproof Left: Paul Krugman Guts the NRA’s Last Shred of Intimidation
Paul Krugman completely gutted the NRA, and in the process became the the latest example of the left’s absolute lack of fear of the gun lobby.
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Wayne LaPierre Gets so Crazy that Even Fox News Calls Out His BS
Wayne LaPierre went so far off the crazy cliff today, that even Fox News had to call out his conspiracy laden BS.
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Harry Reid Tells Republicans No Deal Unless Big Oil Subsidies are Eliminated
Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that any budget deal must contain new revenue, and he specifically mentioned eliminating subsidies to Big Oil.
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Bill Maher: Con Men Like Beck and Limbaugh Only Care About Separating Rubes From Their Money
Bill Maher is calling out Beck, Limbaugh and rest of right wing media machine as con men who only care about, “separating rubes from their money.”
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One Video Destroys the Republican Myth that Their Opposition to Obama Isn’t Racial
In this video evangelical, Koch backed, tea party Arkansas state senator Jason Rapert explains why minorities like President Obama don’t represent his America.
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Sean Hannity Loses It When Confronted About Backing Out of Being Waterboarded
Sean Hannity completely loses it, when he gets confronted by a senior reporter at Think Progress on cowardly backing out of his offer to be waterboarded back in 2009.
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Joe Scarborough, ‘If you defend assault weapons, you look like a jackass.”
Joe Scarborough has a message for those who are defending assault weapons, “If you go out and try to defend assault weapons, then you end up looking like a jackass.”
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As Wayne LaPierre Testified Against Gun Control, Another Multiple Shooting Occurred in Phoenix, AZ
While Wayne LaPierre was testifying against gun control in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee at least three people in Phoenix, AZ were victimized in another multiple shooting.
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Fox News Sinks to a 12 Year Low in Ratings as Obama Approval Hits 60%
Here are two pieces of news that may seem unrelated, but aren’t. President Obama’s job approval rating has hit a four year high of 60% at the same time as Fox News’ ratings plummet to a 12 year low.
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GOP Blocked Elizabeth Warren to Be Director of CFPB Now She’s the Senior Senator From Massachusetts
In 2011, Senate Republicans blocked Elizabeth Warren’s potential recess appointment to be the director of the CFPB. Now, she is now the senior senator from Massachusetts.
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Obama Cleverly Plants the Seeds for Possible GOP Self Destruction on Immigration Reform
President Obama not only offered his own immigration reform plan, but he also planted the seeds for potential Republican self destruction.
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Six Times More People Tuned in For Clinton/Obama Interview than Watch Fox News
Another blow to the Republican myth that America is a conservative nation was delivered when over six times more people watched the Obama/Clinton 60 Minutes interview than watch Fox News.
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While Claiming Only Fox News Gives Him Fair Coverage, Sean Hannity Tells 10 Lies About Obama
While proclaiming that Fox News is the only network on the planet that delivers fair and balanced coverage of Obama, Sean Hannity told 10 lies about the president.
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House Republicans Freak Out When They Realize Obama’s Coming for them in 2014
Terror has gripped House Republicans as they have finally realized that President Obama is already working to defeat them in 2014.
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The Firing of Sarah Palin Signals the Ultimate Failure of Fox News to Defeat Obama
Many in the media are calling the firing of Sarah Palin the end of an era, but what it truly represents is the ultimate failure of Fox News to influence elections and defeat President Obama.
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Fox News Uses Edited Obama Clip to Attack the President for Media Bias
Fox News responded to Obama’s criticism of their punishing of Republicans for bipartisanship with an edited propaganda clip that confirmed the president’s point about their bias.
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Obama Delivered a Not Too Subtle Hillary 2016 Endorsement in 60 Minutes Interview
The fact that President Obama sat down for a joint interview with Hillary Clinton was a not very subtle endorsement of his first term secretary of state’s potential 2016 presidential run.
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House GOP Congresswoman Argues Guns Have Nothing to Do With School Shootings
House Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn claimed that guns aren’t part of the root problem of school shootings. Rep. Blackburn tried to argue that guns have nothing to do with school shootings.
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Obama Calls Out Rush Limbaugh and Fox News for Creating a Toxic Partisan Environment
President Obama is calling out Fox News and Rush Limbaugh by name for creating a toxic environment that makes bipartisanship impossible.
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After She Was Fired Sarah Palin Hilariously Tried to Out Fox Fox News
Ego met ineptitude as Sarah Palin hilariously thought that she could out fox Fox News, and manage the spin behind her firing.
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Judge Who Ruled Obama Violated the Constitution Has a History Of Right Wing Judicial Activism
The judge who ruled that Obama’s recess appointments violated the constitution is a Jesse Helms crony who overturned the conviction of Oliver North and sided with Bush on indefinite detentions.
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BIll Maher Obliterates the Republican Lie that Obama Hasn’t Created Any Jobs
When Republican consultant David Avella tried to push the lie that Obama has not created any jobs, he was completely destroyed by Bill Maher and Howard Dean.
Bernie Sanders: Weak Filibuster Reform Won’t Stop the Perversion of Democracy
Bernie Sanders explained that he voted no on filibuster reform, because the agreement would not stop the Republican perversion of democracy.
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Filibuster Reform Deal Shows the Senate Isn’t Ready to Admit It has a Problem
The problem with the Senate’s new filibuster rules isn’t that they won’t be effective, but that the bipartisan agreement suggests that senators don’t even understand the problem.
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First Hillary Clinton, Now John Kerry Makes Sen. Ron Johnson Look Like an Idiot
Sen. Ron Johnson was humiliated by Hillary Clinton yesterday, and made a complete idiot out of by John Kerry when he tried to bring up his Benghazi conspiracy today.
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Right Wing Meltdown: Limbaugh and Hannity Claim Clinton Benghazi Hearing is Staged
Hillary Clinton’s performance at the Benghazi hearing has been so strong that it has triggered a right wing meltdown and claims by Hannity and Limbaugh that the hearing is staged.
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Hillary Clinton Eats the Republican Party for Lunch at Benghazi Hearing
Senate Republicans found themselves absolutely dominated by Sec. of State Hillary Clinton at today’s Benghazi hearing. Sec. Clinton didn’t just testify. She owned the room.
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Lone Star College in Houston is the Fourth School Shooting in the Last 12 Days
While the political debate over guns and violence rages on, Lone Star College near Houston became the fourth school shooting in the United States in the past 12 days.
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House Republicans Announce Big Plan to Ignore the Debt Ceiling and Hope It Goes Away
After telling the American people how important the debt ceiling is for nearly two years, House Republicans have decided to now ignore the debt ceiling and hope it goes away.
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Republicans Set Up Democrats for a Giant Win if They Refuse to Pay Congress
Congressional Republicans’ latest scheme to force Congress to cut Medicare and Social Security could end up blowing up in their faces and giving Democrats a huge win.
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Bernie Sanders Finds Eloquent Inspiration In Obama’s Second Inaugural Address
Sen. Bernie Sanders praised President Obama’s second inaugural address as, ‘eloquent in its simplicity and inspiring in its basic theme that we’re all in this together.’
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Obama Unchained: With Economic Crisis Behind Him, The President Sets an Ambitious Course
Obama the man made history with his first inaugural address. Today, Obama made history with the agenda laid out in his second inaugural.
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A NM Teen Shoots 5, including 3 Kids, while GOP Senator Say Gun Safety Not a Major Issue
On the same day it was reported that a New Mexico teenager shot and killed 5 people including 3 children, Republican Sen. John Barrasso said on CNN that gun safety isn’t a ‘major issue.’
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Apparently, Rick Santorum Wants Obama to Apologize for Winning the Election
Rick Santorum is claiming that Obama is acting like a ‘sore winner.’ Santorum needs to remember that the president is acting like a winner because he won.
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Republicans Relive Defeat and Failure as Obama is Sworn in For His Second Term
The burn and sting that Republicans were feeling today as they watched Obama take the oath of office is a reminder of their crushing defeat and failure.
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NRA Fueled Loonies Are Now Threatening Democratic Members of Congress
Rep. Richard Nolan is the first Democratic to go the record describing the thinly veiled threats that he is getting from NRA members.
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Martin Luther King Did Not Agree With Gun Nuts and the NRA on the 2nd Amendment
The theory that Martin Luther King would have agreed with the NRA and other Second Amendment radicals is completely refuted by King’s comments on guns after JFK’s assassination.
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Don’t Be Fooled By Eric Cantor’s Desperate and Bogus Offer to Raise the Debt Ceiling
Eric Cantor is trying to fool the American people by dressing up another demand for spending cuts as an offer to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for the House and Senate agreeing on a budget.
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Jon Stewart Shoots Down the Right’s Obama 2nd Amendment Tyranny Hysteria
Jon Stewart tore apart the right’s Obama tyranny hysteria, and suggested that they were mistaking tyranny for losing a presidential election.
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Remember When Bush Used Children as Political Props in Stem Cell Research Veto?
Republicans are comparing Obama to Hitler and Stalin and claiming that he used children as political props, while ignoring Bush’s use of child political props to veto stem cell research in 2006.
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House Republicans Bet on America Forgetting Their Incompetence in 2014
GOP campaign officials have soothing words for Republicans. Don’t worry, they say. The American public will forget a debate that took place two years before the midterms.
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Republicans Call Him a Dictator, But Obama Has Issued Fewest Executive Orders in 100 Years
After his gun control announcement Republicans immediately called Obama a dictator, but the truth is that the president has issued the fewest executive orders of any president over the last 100 years.
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Obama Counters the NRA’s Insanity with a Call for Rational Common Sense Action
Obama has countered and isolated the insanity of the right on guns by calling for rational policies that are common sense.
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Boehner and House Republicans Bumble Right Into Obama’s Debt Ceiling Trap
John Boehner and House Republicans are playing right into President Obama hands and setting themselves up for disaster by threatening to default and/or shut down the government.
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Obama, ‘Republicans Will Not Collect a Ransom in Exchange for Not Crashing the Economy.’
President Obama delivered a strong message to House Republicans today. Obama said, ‘Republicans will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing our economy.’
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Paul Krugman Stands With Obama, ‘You Don’t Negotiate With (Debt Ceiling) Hostage Takers’
Paul Krugman laid out why the left is standing with President Obama in refusing to negotiate on the debt ceiling.
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Colin Powell Slams Sarah Palin and the Republican Party’s Obama Racism
On Meet The Press today, Colin Powell made mention of several recent racist attacks by Republicans on President Obama, and called the party out for their use of racial code words.
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Rachel Maddow Obliterates the Republican Lie that Obama has Blown Up the Deficit
Armed with facts, Rachel Maddow completely obliterated the great Republican lie that President Obama has blown up the deficit.
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Paul Krugman Explains How the Recession Could be Solved in Just 2 Years
Paul Krugman explains to Bill Moyers how a spending program could solve the recession in just two years.
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Obama Rejects Nation Building and Says Afghanistan War Ends in 2014
In a statement before a joint press conference with Afghan president Karzai today, President Obama announced that the war in Afghanistan will end in 2014.
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John Boehner is Counting on Liberals to Stab Obama in the Back
John Boehner has revealed his strategy for winning the next round of fiscal negotiations, and it involves liberals caving and forcing Obama into a bad deal on spending cuts.
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Obama Uses the First Amendment to Smack Down Deport Piers Morgan Petition
The White House has responded to the deport Piers Morgan petition by giving the right wing a little refresher course on the First Amendment.
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The White House Won’t Specifically Rule Out Minting the $1 Trillion Coin
During his daily briefing, Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked repeatedly about the $1 trillion coin option to raising the debt ceiling. Carney wouldn’t tip the president’s hand by saying yes or no.
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In Response to Record Heat, Bernie Sanders to Introduce Global Warming Bill
In response to the news that 2012 was the warmest year on record, Sen. Bernie Sanders will introduce new legislation to aggressively reduce global warming.
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Congress is Now Less Popular than Lice but More Popular than Meth Labs and Lindsey Lohan
A new PPP poll has found that Congress is now less popular than lice, but more popular than Lindsey Lohan and meth labs.
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America is Not a Conservative Nation: More Voters Identify as Democrats than Republicans
Republicans have long argued that America is a conservative nation, but Democrats have now outnumbered Republicans in four of the past five presidential elections.
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Jon Stewart Rips Paul Ryan and House Republicans for Voting Against Sandy Aid
Jon Stewart ripped the 67 House Republicans who voted no on flood insurance funding for Sandy victims, and exposed the hypocrisy behind their ideology.
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Bernie Sanders Annihilates Mitch McConnell and Delivers a Lesson in Compassion
Sen. Bernie Sanders went on MSNBC and completely leveled Sen. Mitch McConnell for claiming that revenue is not the issue. Sanders explained that the government is spendingto keep people from starving.
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Even Rush Limbaugh Can See that Obama is Playing the Republicans on Taxes
In a moment of lucidity, Rush Limbaugh used all the wrong reasons to try to explain to Republicans that President Obama is playing them on taxes.
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Obama is Already Two Steps Ahead of Republicans on the Debt Ceiling
By using the fiscal cliff as the first stage of his political strategy, President Obama is already two steps ahead of Republicans on the debt ceiling.
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Republicans Losing Debt Ceiling Fight as McConnell Won’t Say He’ll Shut Down Government
Republicans are already losing the debt ceiling fight. Sen. Mitch McConnell was asked repeatedly on ABC’s This Week if he would shut down the government, and he wouldn’t back the idea.
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Bernie Sanders: 1 in 4 Profitable Corporations In America Pay 0 Federal Taxes
Bernie Sanders has a message for America. The battle over getting the wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share will continue as long as 1 in 4 corporations in America pay 0 federal taxes.
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Paul Ryan Joins 66 House Republicans In Trying to Ripoff Hurricane Sandy Victims
Paul Ryan and 66 other House Republicans tried to rip off victims of Hurricane Sandy who filed flood insurance claims by voting to deny them their money.
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House Republicans Snub Sandy Victims to Try and Repeal Obamacare for the 34th Time
With House Republicans taking heat over not passing the Hurricane Sandy disaster relief bill, Michele Bachmann introduced a the first bill of the new Congress to repeal Obamacare.
House GOP Drama Continues as Eric Cantor Gets Votes for Speaker
The House managed to reelect John Boehner, but not without a bit of drama as Eric Cantor got votes for speaker.
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Conservatives Want to Fire John Boehner and Replace Him With Sarah Palin
A number of conservatives are so outraged with John Boehner over the fiscal cliff deal are seriously pushing to fire the Speaker and replace him with Sarah Palin.
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Fox News Encourages Rioting in the Streets After Taxes Are Raised on the Wealthy
Fox News is trying to instigate, behind a mask of concern, riots in the streets after taxes were raised on the wealthy.
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Obama Tells Republicans to Forget About Causing Another Debt Ceiling Debacle
Instead of taking a fiscal cliff victory lap, President Obama used his statement to land the first blows in the debt ceiling debate.
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Obama Gets a Big Win as House Republicans Get Buried by Fiscal Cliff Cave In
After much bluster and drama, the Republican divas in the House of Representatives caved, and gave President Obama almost everything that he wanted on the fiscal cliff.
After Telling the Senate and Obama to Lead, House GOP Refuses to Support Fiscal Cliff Bill
House Republicans demanded that Obama and the Senate lead on the fiscal cliff, but are now objecting to passing the agreement that came out of their leadership.
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Happy New Year Republicans, Obama Just Cleaned Your Clock on the Fiscal Cliff
The Senate officially passed the fiscal cliff deal 89-8, which means that President Obama rang in the New Year by taking another step towards cleaning the GOP’s clock on the fiscal cliff.
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In an Act of Political Cowardice House Republicans Shove America Off the Fiscal Cliff
Cowardly House Republicans will shove America off the fiscal cliff because they are afraid of voting for tax increase on the wealthy.
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Obama Warns the Rich that the Fiscal Cliff is Just a Down Payment on Paying Their Fair Share
President Obama said today even if a fiscal cliff deal is agreed to, the rich and the Republicans are not off the hook. He will ask them to pay even more in any future deficit deal.
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Obama Calls Out Republicans for Being Rich Protecting Deficit Reduction Frauds
President Obama called out the called out the the Republicans as deficit reduction frauds, and turned the fiscal cliff into permanent political damage for the right on Meet The Press.
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Bernie Sanders Slams Boehner and Right Wing House Extremists for Fiscal Cliff
Bernie Sanders went on MSNBC today and slammed John Boehner for not being able to control his caucus of right wing House extremists who are pushing America off the fiscal cliff.
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More Americans Blame Congressional Republicans Not Obama for Unemployment
The bad news keeps piling up for congressional Republicans. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has found that more Americans blame the GOP for unemployment than blame President Obama.
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As the GOP Burns Delusional Republicans Think They have Leverage Over Obama
Even though the GOP is crashing and burning on the fiscal cliff, Republican senators like Chuck Grassley believe they have leverage over Obama.
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Mitch McConnell Threatens to Kill Unemployment Benefits for 2 Million Unless He Gets Spending Cuts
Sen. Mitch McConnell has returned from Christmas, and is threatening to kill unemployment insurance for 2 million Americans unless he gets spending cuts.
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The NRA’s Sleazy Sunday Strategy Of Using School Shooting Victims to Stop Gun Control
The NRA unveiled their sleazy PR strategy of using school shooting death to stop any potential gun control legislation this morning on both ABC and CNN.
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Obama is Determined to Give Republicans What They Deserve on the Fiscal Cliff
More reporting confirms that Obama’s hard stance on the fiscal cliff is a reality. He is looking to drive his election victory home by only giving Republicans what they’ve earned on the fiscal cliff.
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Obama Told Boehner ‘You Get Nothing’ in Fiscal Cliff Talks
President Obama’s negotiating stance is a lot firmer than many have given him credit for. Obama has been negotiating from total strength. At one point telling Boehner, ‘You get nothing.’
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Obama Drops the Hammer on Republicans and Pulls Back His Last Fiscal Cliff Proposal
After House Republicans imploded over their own Plan B, President Obama took away much of his previous proposal by calling for Republicans to get their act together and cut taxes on the 98% right now.
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John Boehner’s so Broken and Defeated All He Can Do is Sort of Quote Kid Rock Lyrics
The defeat of his Plan B has left John Boehner so broken, demoralized, and defeated that in response to a media question he could only sort of quote Kid Rock.
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House Republicans Are too Stupid to See Their Own Plan B Sabotage
By sabotaging their own vote on Plan B, House Republicans blew up John Boehner’s attempt to provide them political cover and made certain they will be blamed for the fiscal cliff
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House Republicans Are So Serious About the Fiscal Cliff that They are Going Home for Christmas
House Republicans keep warning the country about the fiscal cliff, but they refuse to stay and work through Christmas to avoid it.
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Eric Cantor Thinks Starving Millions of People Instead of Cutting Defense is Common Sense
Earlier tonight, Eric Cantor called starving millions of Americans instead of cutting defense spending common sense.
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House Republicans Vote to Throw 300,000 Kids off Food Stamps In Order to Cut Taxes for Millionaires
House Republicans passed John Boehner’s DOA Plan B 215-209-1, but what is important is how Republicans tried to fool America into cutting taxes for millionaires by throwing 300,000 kids off food stamps.